Swift.org is up. Today was a good day

So, the whole swift.org thing happened while I was sitting on a chair in the sky, and I was not aware of it until a few minutes ago, when I launched my twitter client and felt immediately flooded by the section of the community.

There is a lot of reading ahead of me this weekend, but I couldn’t help but writing a few of the first things that came to my mind after a quick inspection of the documentation.

There are a lot of reason to embrace Swift if you haven’t done it yet. And now, there are even more reasons. Again, this list is compiled after a quick glance and the flood of documentation. But, yeah, if feels so good to be able to write this!

Contribution is actively encouraged. I love, in particular, the “Triaging Bugs” section. Do you remember what “File a radar” really meant? Well, apparently, not anymore.

To those that were saying, still a month ago, that Swift was nothing more than a toy, and any serious project should be built in Objective-C: well, yeah, you nailed it. But the open-sourcing of Swift was not necessary to realise that Objective-C is already dead. It is fun how some developers hold on to the old tools and patterns, and refuse to try anything new. But I digress, that should be a matter for another post.

Anyway, today was a good day. This is a huge step forward, not only for the language, but also for us the developers working on any Apple platform. And, in my honest opinion, it is also a huge and very needed step forward for Apple. So, to summarise: